Walt Whitman Quotes
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.
Quotes to Explore
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
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Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
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I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.
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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
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Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.
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If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.
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If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.
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The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.
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I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today. Eating better entails small steps.
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Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
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So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
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We're going to the World Series, ... It sounds weird to say if off my lips. Finally the baseball gods shined on us.
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On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes. “I think these promotional campaigns have really got out of hand,” he said, freezing with his hand on the milk carton. “One shiny free knife with every packet of cereal bought is not a good message to send out to the kiddies.
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I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.
